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We experience the world differently and we express those experiences in our language.

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Our Cultural Values are Reflected in: 1.What we choose to talk about 2.How we choose to express ourselves

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Do people who speak different languages have different thought processes (not experiences)?

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NO If you moved to Alaska and experience snow and learned their language, you could process the different categories.

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Until the early 1900’s language was assumed to be a neutral medium that did not influence the way people experienced the world.

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Sapir – Whorf Hypothesis Language is not just an instrument for voicing ideas but is itself the shaper of ideas, the guide for the individuals mental activity.

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Sapir Whorf Hypothesis  Firmer  Softer

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Sapir – Whorf Hypothesis Firmer – Language functions like a PRISON Once you learn a language, you are irrevocably affected by the particular of that language.

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Sapir Whorf Hypothesis  Firmer  Softer

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Sapir – Whorf Hypothesis Softer – Language SHAPES how people think and experience the world, yet it is possible to learn words and categories sufficiently similar to your first language so that communication can be accurate.